Tag: Criticism

Free Download Harlan Ellison’s Watching: Essays and Criticism by Harlan Ellison
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1497604117 | True EPUB | 612pages | 0.9 MB
"An enjoyable, irascible collection" of smart and sometimes-scathing film criticism from a famously candid author (Library Journal).

Free Download Thijs Lijster, "Benjamin and Adorno on Art and Art Criticism: Critique of Art"
English | ISBN: 946298140X | 2017 | 368 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book brings together two of the most important figures of twentieth-century criticism, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to consider a topic that was central to their thinking: the place of and reason for art in society and culture. Thijs Lijster takes us through points of agreement and disagreement between the two on such key topics as the relationship between art and historical experience, between avant-garde art and mass culture, and between the intellectual and the public. He also addresses the continuing relevance of Benjamin and Adorno to ongoing debates in contemporary aesthetics, such as the end of art, the historical meaning of art, and the role of the critic.

Free Download Beckett’s Dantes : Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism By Caselli, Daniela; Beckett, Samuel; Dante Alighieri
2006 | 241 Pages | ISBN: 0719071569 | PDF | 2 MB
This is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is a clear and innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante’s works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. Caselli gives an original intertextual reading of Beckett’s work, detecting previously unknown quotations, allusions to, and parodies of Dante in Beckett’s fiction and criticism.

Free Download Crisis and Criticism: Literary, Cultural and Political Essays, 2009-2021
by Benjamin Noys
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9004689559 | 254 Pages | True PDF | 2.13 MB

Free Download John M. Meyer, "Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma"
English | ISBN: 0262527383 | 2015 | 253 pages | EPUB | 578 KB
An argument that environmental challenges will only resonate with citizens of affluent postindustrial countries if sustainability concerns emerge from everyday practices.

Free Download Daniela Caselli, "Beckett’s Dantes: Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0719071577 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 0.6 mb
Beckett’s Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante’s works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative intertextual reading of Beckett’s work, detecting previously unknown quotations, allusions to, and parodies of Dante in Beckett’s fiction and criticism. The volume interprets Dante in the original Italian (as it appears in Beckett), translating into English all Italian quotations. It benefits from a multilingual approach based on Beckett’s published works in English and French, and on manuscripts (which use English, French, German and Italian). Through a close reading of Beckett’s fiction and criticism, the book will argue that Dante is both assumed as an external source of literary and cultural authority in Beckett’s work, and also participates in Beckett’s texts’ sceptical undermining of authority. Moreover, the book demonstrates that the many references to various ‘Dantes’ produce ‘Mr Beckett’ as the figure of the author responsible for such a remarkably interconnected oeuvre. The book is aimed at the scholarly communities interested in literatures in English, literary and critical theory, comparative literature and theory, French literature and theory and Italian studies. Its jargon-free style will also attract third-year or advanced undergraduate students, and postgraduate students, as well as those readers interested in the unusual relationship between one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and the medieval author who stands for the very idea of the Western canon.

Free Download Derek Wood – Project cancelled: A searching criticism of the abandonment of Britain’s advanced aircraft projects
Macdonald and Jane’s | 1975 | ISBN: 0356081095 | English | 260 pages | PDF | 148.98 MB
A good introduction to the rarer and less known aspects of British aviation. What could have been had the right choices been made, but never was.

Free Download Frank Kermode, "Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002"
English | 2003 | pages: 480 | ISBN: 0809076012, 0374529361 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
Sir Frank Kermode has been writing peerless literary criticism for more than a half-century. Pieces of My Mind includes his own choice of his major essays since 1958, beginning with his extraordinary study of "Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev" and ending with a marvelous consideration of Shakespeare’s Othello and Verdi-Boito’s Otello. Important essays on Hawthorne, on Wallace Stevens, on problems in literary theory and analysis, on Auden, on "Secrets and Narrative Sequence," and three previously unpublished essays (including one on "Memory" and one on "Forgetting") fill out this rich and rewarding volume. Pieces of My Mind also contains recent considerations of the work of major modern writers-Don DeLillo, Raymond Carver, Tom Paulin, and others.

Free Download Joseph Ford, "Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature "
English | ISBN: 1498581862 | 2021 | 178 pages | EPUB, PDF | 433 KB + 3 MB
Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature examines how literature-and the way we read, classify, and critique literature-impacts our understanding of the world at a time of conflict. Using the bitterly-contested Algerian Civil War as a case study, Joseph Ford argues that, while literature is frequently understood as an illuminating and emancipatory tool, it can, in fact, restrain our understanding of the world during a time of crisis and further entrench the polarized discourses that lead to conflict in the first place. Ford demonstrates how Francophone Algerian literature, along with the cultural and academic criticism that has surrounded it, has mobilized visions of Algeria over the past thirty years that often belie the complex and multi-layered realities of power, resistance, and conflict in the region. Scholars of literature, history, Francophone studies, and international relations will find this book particularly useful.

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2014 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0520280679 | PDF | 3 MB
Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, focusing on the two main critical lenses used in the interpretation of these films: propaganda and allegory. Produced in response to the hearings held by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) that resulted in the Hollywood blacklist, these films’ ideological message and rhetorical effectiveness was often muddled by the inherent difficulties in dramatizing villains defined by their thoughts and belief systems rather than their actions. Whereas anti-Communist propaganda films offered explicit political exhortation, allegory was the preferred vehicle for veiled or hidden political comment in many police procedurals, historical films, Westerns, and science fiction films. Jeff Smith examines the way that particular heuristics, such as the mental availability of exemplars and the effects of framing, have encouraged critics to match filmic elements to contemporaneous historical events, persons, and policies. In charting the development of these particular readings, Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist features case studies of many canonical Cold War titles, including The Red Menace, On the Waterfront, The Robe, High Noon, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.